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UC Center Program
Faculty - Fall 2008
Faculty
Marc BATTIER
PCC 126. French
Music Appreciation
Marc Battier lives and works in France. He started using computers
in composition in 1970. His electroacoustic music has been
played in most countries of Europe, Japan, China, the United
States and Canada. He has composed electronic music for tape,
instruments and live electronics. His music often deals with
the voice (‘Transparence’ compact disc with sound
poet Henri Chopin), with poetry and with painting (‘AudioScan’
CD from works by surrealist painter Matta). Professor Battier
has worked in computer music with the Groupe de recherches
musicales (France) as assistant to Francois Bayle, then at
IRCAM (France), the music research center of the Pompidou
Centre in Paris founded by Pierre Boulez where he worked with
Karlheinz Stockhausen, Pierre Henry, François Bayle,
Joji Yuasa and other composers. Battier is now involved in
teaching in universities in France and North America, and
is researching the history of Twentieth Century music technology.
He is co-founder of Electroacoustic Music Studies Network
(EMS-Network) and director of Electroacoustic Music Studies
Network Asia Network. His other professional involvements:
member of the board of Leonardo Music Journal (USA) and Organised
Sound (Great Britain); vice president of Electronic Music
Foundation (USA), and reviewer for the Fulbright commission.
He is a founding member of the International Computer Music
Association and former member of its board of directors. He
is professor of musicology and electroacoustic music at the
University of Paris-Sorbonne and head of the MINT research
group.
William BISHOP
PCC 123. Paris
in Literature
Will Bishop received his PhD in French from the University
of California, Berkeley in December, 2003. His dissertation
addresses questions of translation in texts by Beckett, Genet,
Celan and Rimbaud. Several sections of his dissertation will
soon be published in the journal diacritics as an article
on "The Marriage Translation and the Contexts of Common
Life: From the PACS to Benjamin and Beyond". He has recently
been at work on the translation of books by the Moroccan-born
writer, Rachid O; a chapter on Rachid O's writing will be
a part of his next project, "The Other Ambassadors: Figures
Abroad after Henry James." He has taught French language
and literature classes at the University of California, Berkeley,
at the UC center program, and a course on translation at Columbia
University's program in Paris at Reid Hall.
Christopher Boïcos
PCC 125. French
Art 1715-1914
Chris Boïcos received his Mphil from the Courtauld Institute
of Art at the University of London in 1982 and studied for
two years in the doctoral program of the University of Paris
I, Sorbonne. His thesis subject was "The Café-concert,
the Fairground and the Circus in French Painting, 1875-1890."
He has been teaching art history for American University programs
in Paris since 1989 notably for the University of Southern
California, the University of Delaware and CUPA a center for
American students from Ivy League schools. Chris Boïcos
has been involved in the contemporary art world, first as
art critic in the 1980’s and then as curator of numerous
gallery exhibitions in Paris and abroad. He is founder and
partner of the Galerie Beckel Odille Boïcos which opened
near the Bastille in 1999 He is currently curating an important
exhibition of the work of the American painter William Utermohlen
(1933-2007) for the Chicago Cultural Center for the summer
of 2008.
Marc CERISUELO
PCC 120. French Cinema
Marc Cerisuelo studied and taught Literature, Philosophy and
Film. He received his Ph.D in Film Studies at the University
of Paris III, and is Associate Professor in Film Studies and
Aesthetics in the Literature, Arts and Cinema Department at
the University of Paris VII. A specialist of Godard, film
criticism, film poetics and of the relations between literature,
philosophy and film, he is the author of several books. Among
them: Jean-Luc Godard, Lherminier/ Ed. des Quatre-Vents,
1989; Hollywood à l'écran. Poétique
des métafilms américains, Presses de la
Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2000; Preston Sturges ou le génie
de l'Amérique, PUF, 2002; Le Mépris
(J.-L. Godard, 1963), Ed. de la Transparence, 2006.
Stéphane DUFOIX
PCC 116. Cultural
Identities in France
French Society and Politics
Stéphane Dufoix received his Ph.D. in Political Science
at the University of Paris I. As well as being member of the
Institut universitaire de France, he is Associate Professor
in the Sociology Department at Nanterre. A specialist on immigration
and asylum, he has taught for UC Paris since 2002. The co-author
of several important governmental reports, he has written
two books, Politiques d'Exil: Hongrois, Polonais et Tchécoslovaques
en France après 1945 (Paris: PUF, 2002); and Les
diasporas (Paris: PUF, 2003), and is co-editor (with
Patrick Weil) of L'esclavage, la Colonisation et après...
(Paris, PUF, 2005). He is currently a research associate at
the Centre d'Histoire Sociale du XXème siècle
(CNRS-Paris- I).
Mariam HABIBI
PCC 115. France
and European Integration
Mariam Habibi received her doctorat from the Institut d’Etudes
Politiques de Paris in 2000 with a dissertation on French
Diplomacy in early twentieth century Persia, published by
L'Harmattan in 2004. She studied at Lancaster and London University,
and has held teaching appointments at the American University
of Paris, Columbia University at Reid Hall, and New York University
in France.
Sarah SASSON
PCC 117. French
Media
Sarah Juliette Sasson received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature
from Columbia University in 2000. She has taught at Barnard
College, Sarah Lawrence College and is currently a lecturer
at Columbia University as well as the managing editor of The
Romanic Review. She has published articles on nineteenth-century
literature and is working on a project on the cholera epidemics
in 1832-Paris. She just completed a book on representations
of new money in the nineteenth century.
Christina von KOEHLER
PCC 111. Histories
of Paris
The recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship for Research in France
(topic: The Paris Opera), she holds an M.A. in Political Economy
from Columbia University’s School of International Affairs
and an M.Phil in Modern European History from the City University
of New York. A former dancer and arts administrator, she has
curated and written the catalogues for several exhibitions,
including “La Fontaine: The Power of Fables” at
the New York Public Library.
Sylvie CLEMENCE
PCC012
French Conversation & Grammar
Véronique DU PARC
PCC015
Reading and Writing French
Lea SCATTOLIN
French Conversation & Reading
TBA
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